Anthony Joseph

Precious & Impossible: Selected Poems (MP3-Download)

Ungekürzte Lesung. 222 Min.
Sprecher: Joseph, Anthony

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Produktbeschreibung

Bloomsbury presents Precious and Impossible written and read by Anthony Joseph Featuring exclusive new work, Precious and Impossible gathers together over three decades of poetry from the T S Eliot Prize-winning Anthony Joseph ___________________________________________ For over three decades, Anthony Joseph's work has explored the transnational vibrations of the African diaspora. Precious and Impossible brings together thirty years of Joseph's poetry and lyrics – cementing his status as one of our greatest living poets and polymaths 'Joseph is both a faithful heir and an agnostic rebel; a Black poet haunted by Africa's past as well as a bilingual post-modernist amused by the possibilities of the future' Ali Alizadeh

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Poetry
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526673633
• Artikelnr.: 71515321

Autorenporträt

Anthony Joseph is a Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic and musician. His 2022 collection Sonnets for Albert was awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry and the OCM BOCAS Prize for Poetry. He is the author of four poetry collections and three novels. His 2018 novel Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Icon was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award and the OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction. In 2019, he was awarded a Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship. As a musician, he has released nine critically acclaimed albums, and in 2020 received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Composers Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Kings College, London.

Rezensionen

Praise for Sonnets for Albert: After much silence and absence in life, the poet's father is painstakingly restored in death in a book-length "calypso sonnet" sequence ... Sonnets for Albert movingly makes peace with his shade